Vitiligo is believed to be an autoimmune condition where the body attacks its own healthy melanin-producing skin cells by mistake. It may be hereditary or triggered by a particular event like ...

Ever noticed those white patches on someone’s skin and wondered what that is? That’s vitiligo, a skin condition that’s more common than you might think. It happens when the skin loses its ...

Intrinsic alterations in the skin of patients with vitiligo include a thicker epidermis with a reduced number of basal melanocytes and the presence of degenerated keratinocytes with swollen ...

Further multiphoton microscopy (MPM) imaging of patients undergoing punch grafting treatment showed that metabolically altered keratinocytes persist in non-responders but normalize in treatment ...

Coronation Street icon Georgia May Foote admitted that the progression of her vitiligo 'breaks her heart,' as she shared an ...

A mouse in which vitiligo has been induced as part of a recent NCI study. When the subjects of experimental melanoma vaccine studies lose pigment in their skin after receiving treatment, few of them ...

“I came to love and appreciate my spots,” Amara Aleman, 29, tells PEOPLE after being diagnosed with vitiligo in 2018 Courtesy Amara Aleman; Joy Masi; Courtesy Amara Aleman PEOPLE ...